Liquid-measuring faucet.



A. MASS.

LIQUID MEASURING FAUCET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1913. RENEWED NOV. 5. 1914.

1 1 59,976. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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M ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO-YWASHINGTON, n. c.

ADOLPH MASS, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

LIQUID-MEASURING FAUCE'T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. "9, 1915.

Application filed March 11, 1913, Serial No. 753,484. Renewed November 5, 1914. Serial No. 870,535.

To all whom it may concern.

Be'it known that I, ADoLrH MASS, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved .Liquid Measuring Faucet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a faucet operated in a conventional manner and provided with means for indicating the amount of liquid passing or passed therethrough; and to provide a simplified form of structure for a faucet .of the character named.

One embodiment of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a partly sectional elevation of a faucet constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, the section being taken through the median line of the faucet block; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 22 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the-meter and faucet handle constructed as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 44 in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a detail view of a modified form of the faucet handle.

As seen in the drawings, the faucet spout 10 is of conventional shape and construction, having a passage 11 bisected by a vertical and slightly tapered passage usually provided to receive a valve stem having a cross passage of conventional shape and construction.

In the present invention, for the valve stem of conventional construction, the valve stem 12 is substituted. The stem 12 is tapered to fit the bore provided for it, and is furnished at the end with a nut 13, the manipulation of which draws the stem 12 into the bore, to compensate for wear of the stem. The stem 12 has formed therein vertical passages 14 and 15, the former being in open communication with a port opening 16 in the side of the stem, which opening usually registers with the opening in the pipe section 17 of the faucet. The passage 15 communicates with a port opening 18, which is oppositely disposed to the port opening 16 and registers with the passage 11 in the nozzle or delivery end of the spout 10.

The passages 14 and 15 above described are divided by a center wall 19. Supported upon the stem 12, and at the upper end thereof is a casing 20, the side walls whereof determine a chamber 21, within which is a rotary member having laterally-disposed vanes 22. The vertical wall of the casing 20 is parted to form gates 23 and 24 at opposite sides of the casing for the introduction of the liquid when delivered thereto by the lateral passage 25. The liquid, after passing through the chamber 21, is delivered by the gate 24 to the lateral passage 26, which communicates with the vertical passage 15.

Exterior to the gates 23 and 24 are shields 27 and 28, the former of which forms a vertical passage 29 connecting the passage 25 with the gate 23, while the latter forms a vertical passage 30 which communicates with the passage 26.

With a construction such as described, and when the chamber 21 is covered, it will be'seen that-whenever the stem 12 is rotated to connect the ports 16 and 18 with the branches of the passage 11, the liquid flows from the pipe section 17 through the channels 14, 25 and 29 and the gate 23, into the chamber 21, and impinges upon the vane 22 in line with the opening of the gate 23. The vanes are thereby rotated. As each vane passes the gate 24', some of the liquid contained between the mentioned vane and the one following is delivered through the gate 24to the passage 30, and thence through the passages 26'and 15 and port 18 to the section of the passage 11 in the spout 10. The quantity of liquid passing through the chamber 21 corresponds with the rotations of the member having the vanes 22, and it is by registering the number of rotations that the amount of liquid is registered.

The vanes 22 are centrally joined, and are provided with a pivot 31. The rotary member having the vanes 22 is connected by means of a suitable gear train to numbered dials 32, 33 and 34. The numbers on the peripheries of the dials are disclosed through orifices in the cover 35 which fits over the chamber 21 and is rigidly connected to the walls 20 thereof. Rigidlv connected to the cover 35 is a handle 36, by which the stem 12 is rotated to connect the port openings 16 and 18 with the passage 11, or to move the same out of register therewith to close said passage.

The operation of a faucet constructed and ings is to all intents and purposesthat followed with faucets of usual or conventional] arranged in accordance with the above description and with the accompanying drawconstruction. From time to time, the readamounts of liquid which have passed through the faucet or spout 10. The registering dials or meter with which the present faucet is provided are not primarily to measure the quantity drawn out in a single operation, but rather to measure the entire quantity drawn through the faucet, either after being installed, as in a barrel, vat, or tank, or for a certain period of time as when installed as a fixture.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings, a modified form of handle, such as 37, is shown.- The modification consists inplacing in the handle 37 a gear train connecting the pointers 38, 39'

and 40, which register the quantity dispensed by means of the numbered circles surrounding said pointers.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent 1. In afaucet of the class specified, having a spoutproviding a delivery passage; a retary valvestem mounted transverse said delivery passage and provided with inlet and outlet ports to register with said passage; a liquid meter disposed between said ports to be operated by the liquid passing between said ports; a handle for operating said stem; and means adjacent said handle for registers ing the operation of said meter.

I 2. In combination, a faucet having a de-' livery passage; a rotary valve stem mounted in said faucet transverse said passage, said stem having a plurality of separated' channels each open at both ends, the inner ends simultaneously; a rotary member mounted v on saidvalve stem, said member having vanes interposed between the outer ends of: ing of the dials 32, 33 and 334 discloses the" said channels to be moved by the liquid flow ing from one to the other of said channels;

and a countingmechanism mounted on said stem and embodylng an exposed register to show the number of revolutions of said stem or equivalent quantity :of; liquid having passed by during the operation of said rotary member.

3, In combination, a faucet having a" delivery passage, a rotary valve stem mounted 1n said faucet transverse said passage, sa1d stem having a plurality of separated chan-v on said stem between the outer ends of the* ing a plurality of vanes forming spaces to hold ascertainedrquantities of liquid, said 7 vanes being adapted for movement by liquid v r channels thereof, said rotary member havflowing between said channels for delivery from said faucet; and a counting mechanism mounted on said stem and embodying an exposed register to show the'number of-revolutions ofsaid stem or equivalent quantity of liquid having passed by during the'operation of said rotary member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ADOLPH Mass. Witnesses? V I if E. F. MURDOCK, PHILIP D. 'BOLLI-IAUS.

' Washington, D, 0

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